The second spirit shadow did not answer. It simply floated there in silence.
The second spirit shadow was Su Yuexi herself, except it was a strange shade of purple.
Su Yuexi had wanted to control it, but she could no longer do so. She had still been able to control it when it had first formed.
Then, all of a sudden, she could not.
Su Yuexi's spirit shadow snapped coldly, "You're making me break through, but I don't want to break through yet. Stop!"
The purple spirit shadow still ignored her, continuing to push her toward a breakthrough.
This was precisely what Sikong Ling had just witnessed—Su Yuexi wanting to break through while desperately suppressing herself.
The truth was that her spirit shadow and the second spirit shadow were locked in a frenzied struggle.
Finally, the purple spirit shadow slowly curled its lips into a strange smile. "I want to help my Jing Gege. Of course I have to break through. Why do you always keep suppressing me?"
Su Yuexi's spirit shadow widened her eyes upon hearing that. "Jing Gege is not for you to call. You are not me at all."
"I am your inner demon. I am you." The purple spirit shadow grinned eerily again and again.
Su Yuexi's spirit shadow shouted once more, "You are not me. What exactly are you?"
She simply did not want to break through, because a terrifying instinct kept warning her that if she did, she would be in danger. She might even lose herself completely. She had absorbed the Purple Spirit-Protecting Jade to reach her current realm.
Her second spirit shadow was far too strange.
That was why Su Yuexi wanted to wait—wait for Sikong Jing to return. Her Jing Gege would surely have a way to resolve this.
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